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1000 BC

Phoenician trading colonies in the western Mediterranean.
800 BC - 600 BC

Main period of Phoenician colonization.
800 BC - 500 BC

Greek colonization of the Mediterranean and Black Sea.
c. 750 BC

Phoenicians found the colony of Motya on Sicily.
734 BC

Corinthians found the colony Syracuse in Sicily.
580 BC - 376 BC

Carthage and Greece fight for dominance in Sicily.
500 BC

Carthage expands into southern Spain.
396 BC

The Carthaginian city of Lilybaeum is founded on Sicily.

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Greek Colonies of the Northern Black Sea

Map of Tartessos with Phoenician and Greek colonies

Greek & Phoenician Colonies

Greek and Phoenician Colonization

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Colonization Books

The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and...

Timothy Parsons

Oxford University Press, USA (11 June 2010)

Price: $19.77

Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836...

William W. Freehling

Oxford University Press, USA (04 June 1992)

Price: $26.45

Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization

Anonymous

Rutgers University Press (01 February 1991)

Price: $17.97

Columbus and Other Cannibals

Jack D. Forbes

Seven Stories Press (01 November 2008)

Price: $8.50

Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Basic Civitas Books (24 February 2009)

Price: $16.50

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